Definitions

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  • proper noun derogatory A supposed future Europe taken over by radical Islam.

Etymologies

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Blend of Europe and Arabia

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Examples

  • The term 'Eurabia' has been used by some to describe the growing influence of Islam in Europe, though Littman contended that her arguments are more complex.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • The term Eurabia is one that the right uses to describe the Islamicization of Europe (fear mongering), and that gives Muslims "just cause" for their legitimate concerns, or rants.

    WordPress.com News 2009

  • One prominent example was the Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, who spent her last years before her death in 2006 inveighing against a Muslim influx that was turning the continent into what she called "Eurabia."

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • "Eurabia" is American, uses the figure of a "decadent Europe" blind to the supposed Muslim danger as a proxy for liberal viewpoints back home.

    Eurozine articles Eurozine Review 2010

  • Eurabia is upon us and our freedoms have been eroded by a minority (backed by the government) - and no-one has fought back.

    Support These People Laban 2006

  • That is, after his fundamentalist co-religionists behead or enslave what is left of the remaining infidels over there to establish the Caliphate in Eurabia - Praise Allah!

    The Sudden Curve: 2004

  • That is, after his fundamentalist co-religionists behead or enslave what is left of the remaining infidels over there to establish the Caliphate in Eurabia - Praise Allah!

    Good riddance to bad Cats 2004

  • That is, after his fundamentalist co-religionists behead or enslave what is left of the remaining infidels over there to establish the Caliphate in Eurabia - Praise Allah!

    Good riddance to bad Cats 2004

  • "Eurabia" - a phenomenon by which Muslim hordes are now contaminating Europe's very DNA.

    Minivan News : Top Stories 2009

  • "Eurabia" - a phenomenon by which Muslim hordes are now contaminating Europe's very DNA.

    Minivan News : Top Stories 2009

  • Eurabia is a term coined in the 70s that was resurfaced by Gisèle Littman, an Egyptian-born Jewish woman who fled Cairo for Britain after the Suez crisis, and then moved to Switzerland in 1960 with her English husband.

    The myth of Eurabia: how a far-right conspiracy theory went mainstream Andrew Brown 2019

  • But all of these later conspiracy theories took inspiration from a founding myth of contemporary Islamophobia: an invented plot, known as “Eurabia”, to destroy European civilisation.

    The myth of Eurabia: how a far-right conspiracy theory went mainstream Andrew Brown 2019

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